Job summary
Bramley Village Health and Wellbeing Centre is a friendly, forward-thinking GP practice in Bramley, Leeds, committed to offering the highest quality primary health care to our patients. Our vision is to be a valued, trusted, and reliable partner across the local health and social care economy. Everything we do is guided by our mission to help patients live longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives.
We are looking for a warm, skilled, and reliable Phlebotomistto join our clinical team. This is a rewarding role at the heart of what we do, supporting patients through long-term condition reviews, QOF monitoring, and medicines management blood testing, all of which directly contribute to the quality of care our patients receive.
Your primary base will be Bramley Village Health and Wellbeing Centre, with occasional clinics at our Middleton Park Surgery site. Whether you're working with a patient who needs reassurance before a blood test or ensuring samples reach the lab accurately and on time, your contribution will be felt every day.
This is a permanent role of up to 37.5 hours per week, and represents a clear, valued position on our nursing and clinical support ladder, recognised for the expertise phlebotomy genuinely requires.
If you share our values and want to be part of a practice that genuinely cares about its patients and its people, we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
As our Phlebotomist / GPA, your day-to-day will centre on delivering high-quality blood tests for patients attending long-term condition reviews, QOF clinics, and medicines monitoring appointments. You'll work closely with our nursing team, ensuring samples are accurately labelled, processed, and dispatched to the lab without delay.
Alongside your phlebotomy work, you'll support the smooth running of our clinical sessions preparing rooms, assisting with basic observations, and providing chaperoning when needed. You'll also play an important role in keeping our cold chain, fridge monitoring, and equipment checks up to date.
This is a hands-on, patient-facing role where no two days are exactly the same and where your work directly supports the clinical outcomes of our registered patients.
About us
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Bramley Village Health and Wellbeing Centre, Middleton Park Surgery, and Cottingley Surgery together form a close-knit group of three GP surgeries serving approximately 17,500 patients across west Leeds. Each site has its own identity and community roots, but works collaboratively under shared clinical and operational leadership to deliver consistent, high-quality primary care.
Our practices form part of Fuller & Forbes Healthcare Group, a growing healthcare organisation with a network of GP surgeries operating across the UK. This means our staff benefit from the support, development opportunities, and resources of a larger organisation, while still enjoying the warm, community-focused environment that makes each of our sites special.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Details
Practice Location - main site and related branches
Contract Type - Permanent, up to full-time
Hours - Up to 37.5 hours per week
Professional Reporting - Practice Lead Nurse
Managerial Reporting - Practice Lead Nurse
Pay Point - 13 per hour
Role Purpose
The Phlebotomist and General Practice Assistant performs venepuncture and blood specimen collection to clinical standards, supports the wider clinical workflow under the direction of registered clinical staff, and contributes general practice assistant duties such as preparing clinical rooms, chaperoning, and supporting basic clinical observations.
This role has been introduced as a distinct point on the nursing ladder to recognise the specific clinical value of phlebotomy within the practice, to provide a clear progression route for individuals developing these competencies, and to support the practice's capacity to deliver phlebotomy services at volume without consuming clinical nurse time.
Duties and Key Responsibilities
Phlebotomy
Venepuncture - Perform venepuncture for blood specimen collection on adult patients to clinical standards, ensuring patient comfort and consent.
Sample handling - Accurately label, package, and process blood samples for laboratory transport in line with cold chain and transport protocols.
Documentation - Document procedures and any complications accurately in SystmOne.
Aseptic technique - Maintain aseptic technique and infection control during all phlebotomy procedures.
General Practice Assistant Duties
Clinical room preparation - Prepare clinical rooms including stock, equipment and cleanliness for nursing and medical clinics.
Chaperoning - Provide chaperoning for clinical examinations as requested by clinicians.
Basic observations - Support basic clinical observations under the direction of registered clinical staff including BP, pulse, temperature and weight.
Stock and supplies - Manage clinical supply stock including checking, reordering and restocking as required.
Cold Chain and Equipment
Fridge monitoring - Carry out daily fridge temperature monitoring and recording in line with cold chain policy.
Equipment checks - Carry out scheduled equipment checks including resuscitation trolley, ECG and sphygmomanometers.
Patient Interaction
Patient experience - Provide a calm, professional and reassuring experience for patients, particularly anxious or needle-phobic patients.
Confidentiality - Maintain strict patient confidentiality.
Quality and Safety
Infection control - Adhere to strict infection control protocols including PPE and hand hygiene.
Significant events - Report and contribute to learning from any clinical or near-miss incidents.
Audit - Support clinical audit relating to phlebotomy quality and turnaround.
Miscellaneous
The Practice recognises that the role of Phlebotomist and General Practice Assistant is wide and varied and is evolving in nature. Therefore this job description is not intended to be exhaustive and there will be other tasks and duties that the post holder will be expected to perform within what is ordinarily expected of this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Details
Practice Location - main site and related branches
Contract Type - Permanent, up to full-time
Hours - Up to 37.5 hours per week
Professional Reporting - Practice Lead Nurse
Managerial Reporting - Practice Lead Nurse
Pay Point - 13 per hour
Role Purpose
The Phlebotomist and General Practice Assistant performs venepuncture and blood specimen collection to clinical standards, supports the wider clinical workflow under the direction of registered clinical staff, and contributes general practice assistant duties such as preparing clinical rooms, chaperoning, and supporting basic clinical observations.
This role has been introduced as a distinct point on the nursing ladder to recognise the specific clinical value of phlebotomy within the practice, to provide a clear progression route for individuals developing these competencies, and to support the practice's capacity to deliver phlebotomy services at volume without consuming clinical nurse time.
Duties and Key Responsibilities
Phlebotomy
Venepuncture - Perform venepuncture for blood specimen collection on adult patients to clinical standards, ensuring patient comfort and consent.
Sample handling - Accurately label, package, and process blood samples for laboratory transport in line with cold chain and transport protocols.
Documentation - Document procedures and any complications accurately in SystmOne.
Aseptic technique - Maintain aseptic technique and infection control during all phlebotomy procedures.
General Practice Assistant Duties
Clinical room preparation - Prepare clinical rooms including stock, equipment and cleanliness for nursing and medical clinics.
Chaperoning - Provide chaperoning for clinical examinations as requested by clinicians.
Basic observations - Support basic clinical observations under the direction of registered clinical staff including BP, pulse, temperature and weight.
Stock and supplies - Manage clinical supply stock including checking, reordering and restocking as required.
Cold Chain and Equipment
Fridge monitoring - Carry out daily fridge temperature monitoring and recording in line with cold chain policy.
Equipment checks - Carry out scheduled equipment checks including resuscitation trolley, ECG and sphygmomanometers.
Patient Interaction
Patient experience - Provide a calm, professional and reassuring experience for patients, particularly anxious or needle-phobic patients.
Confidentiality - Maintain strict patient confidentiality.
Quality and Safety
Infection control - Adhere to strict infection control protocols including PPE and hand hygiene.
Significant events - Report and contribute to learning from any clinical or near-miss incidents.
Audit - Support clinical audit relating to phlebotomy quality and turnaround.
Miscellaneous
The Practice recognises that the role of Phlebotomist and General Practice Assistant is wide and varied and is evolving in nature. Therefore this job description is not intended to be exhaustive and there will be other tasks and duties that the post holder will be expected to perform within what is ordinarily expected of this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Core GCSEs including English and Maths at grade C/4 or above.
- Recognised phlebotomy training e.g.
- NHS phlebotomy course City & Guilds
- or equivalent with certificate of competence.
Desirable
- Paediatric phlebotomy competence.
- GPA-specific training (RCGP General Practice Assistant programme).
- Healthcare Assistant Level 2/3 background.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable phlebotomy experience in a clinical setting
- (NHS hospital community
- or general practice).
- Technical Skills
- Working knowledge of SystmOne (training provided where needed).
- Familiarity with infection control and cold chain principles.
- Personal Attributes
- Calm, patient, and professional manner with anxious or vulnerable patients.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Reliable and punctual.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Core GCSEs including English and Maths at grade C/4 or above.
- Recognised phlebotomy training e.g.
- NHS phlebotomy course City & Guilds
- or equivalent with certificate of competence.
Desirable
- Paediatric phlebotomy competence.
- GPA-specific training (RCGP General Practice Assistant programme).
- Healthcare Assistant Level 2/3 background.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable phlebotomy experience in a clinical setting
- (NHS hospital community
- or general practice).
- Technical Skills
- Working knowledge of SystmOne (training provided where needed).
- Familiarity with infection control and cold chain principles.
- Personal Attributes
- Calm, patient, and professional manner with anxious or vulnerable patients.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Reliable and punctual.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Fuller and Forbes Partnership
Address
Bramley Village Health and Wellbeing Centre
16 Highfield Road
Bramley
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS13 2BL
United Kingdom
Employer's website
http://bramleyonline.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
